The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-08-16
Future Alignment.

tiDuist- do not lntcud 10 accept Tue
late defeat ~ final or decisive, but the
intent (, to organize closely in every
precinct, operate in the primaries
and to cIptu,e every place possible in
peal elections, elt ct members of the
legislature, capture democratic con
ycntions and by these means stamp
themselves indelfbly upon the state rs
dominant political party. OF course
this policy in the face of the late lU0,-
900 msjority against prohibition is
chin rlcal and fallacious In the cx-
IRENE and the only result will be the
keeping alive of the spirit OF hostility
whi.h has up grown out of the con.
ilict. OF course this will constitute a
vast evil, but it WILDE one of their own
creation, not ours, aud we will simply
meet it on every threshold and by the
,amc means by which 1t WAS last met
and the result will be exactly the
anne in every struggle. Or. Hay
Goods recommendation rs to getting
up early Oh the morning of the 9th
aud recommending the tight is about
to bo adopted. That will bring every
lie4cman OF true blue democracy into
the field Mt the same moment armed
rationed and ACQUIRED for the same
length of campaign amt
for the same difficult service. For we
say to the fanatics OF the other side,
we will never give up this great state
with all Of its bounding progress
great possibilities and sure future, to
the policy which has made Iowa
almost wilderness and which has
set Kansas back quarter OF u cen
fury in her career. If the time has
come for another gigantic struggle,
why, we will simply make it rs We
did on the 18th, and with the same re
suit, we doubt not.
In order to do thi-, and in order to
meet every move OF the foe on every
field of this broad commonwealth,
W. too. must look well to our organi-
lA'ious. We must organic, revivify,
10 feet aud extend them indefinitely.
We must have wary and wac htu,
mon to the fore in every beat in the
state. Our papers, what few we have,
must be looked after, sustained and
encouraged. In the intervals of such
battles ~ tho one we have just gone
through, incalculable mischief may
b. don by the Z eat excess OF pro-
mbition papers. These are silently
At work day Und night, and it is sheer
folly t. deny their influence. But
Tor the prohibition papers OF
Texas that party had been
utterly unable to make even decent
showing Oh August It'll. Right here
is plain indication ot duty 10 the
ants. We must have more papers
and better ones TO enable Us to meet
the craze on the hearthstonos OF the
people and down it by cultivating
tho reason, tho intelligence and the
patriotism of the masses For il is
only 10y real enlightenment that this
can be done. Venus keep alive the
fires which burned so brilliantly MI
along our Atlantic sen board when
personal liberty after having been
driven ont from the civilization OF
- g.,
secure ioothold on this savage CONT
nent two hundred years since. We
dare not part with the precious Jewel
Won 10y such u vast outlay OF patriotic
blood and Hort. We in Texas, are
booked for the character light Of the
epoch on this question and we must
nerve our arm and grid our !oins for
the conflict which is surely coming.
To DO this we must build up press
here at least equal to that OF the FAM
atics in numbers and greater In Intel
ligcnCc.
These are the only means by
which the situation can be
met successfully, by which we can
preserve the liberties we have won
and guarded until now. LIST us prove
ourselves equal to tho demands of
the situation, and like earnest men,
struggling tor the right, a. we see il.
be prepared to meet any possible
concentration of the foe.
Watch the importing OF northern
lecturers, northern literature and
preachers in the interim bctw cen the
present aud the time for the next
great fight, add to that the close
home organization on the announced
policy, and then tel us ityou dare that
there Is no necessity for watchful care
and manly effort They must not be
be perm tied to organic us out oftLc
advantage we have gained and they